Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

! unmdITlWu women, enCn anu every one VI
Whom is heiress to at least e5tQ $50. o % }..-
TIKI amount of capital and capital stock
put into new Industrial enterprises lin the
south during 1870 Is reported by the Chicago
Journal al z9ou0,ooO az against SIC, o0e, go N
1855. n" taa
joins o. SNYDER, the lRd.ara fsraer who
for two wears has been walking because he ls
not comfortable whep he keeps still has &.
| Inst decided TO put his curious disease to &C
count, and has hired out TO a Chicago dime
museum.
NEW YORK HOCsEKEEPER writes that she
mas maid servant now working for SIX e
month who has several thousand dollars IN
IdiIroa sIoch, which she has ACcumu lated
she reads the news, dresses well and does
good work. from scruUbng to cooking Of
sewing.
BUFFALO has citizen who deals in second
hand gravestones. he buvs old ones, erases
the letters, and eDgraves new inscriptions to
oraer. Lots of people seem to want 20 sell. -
ue Is reported as saying, land plenty of
others are willing to buy when they can get u
good article so cheap"
A COMPANY has been formed to dredge the
Carson river, in Nevada, for quicksilver and
Rmalgam. Eighteen miles of river bed have
been located. 1t IS estimated that 10 per cent.
OF the bullion product of the Comstock
mines has flowed as tailiugs into the Car
son river and that at the leas. $40 COG, eco will
be recovered.
TIE Catholic clergy of the Philadelphia
diocese have received orders from Arch Dlshop
Ryan to instruct the Choirs of their respective
chur tnal no music not especially written
LOT lhe char h shall be sung a. any church
service. A.! operate music and many popu
ar compositions which nave been adapted to
the words Of the service Win be banished.
THERE were but few soldiers n the war;
said Capt, Campbell, who were not card
players. and they nearly all liked to own a
deck, but they had dread of being killed
with a deck on their person. Wherever we
heard the canuons begin TO boom and the guns
OF the picket men begin to clatter, we knew
That battle was coming, and You would see
men b. the hundreds drawing their car Is
from their pockets and throwing them along
the road"
A LATE MINISTER to China few years ago
at one OF his earliest dinners at Pekin heartily
relished certain dish, and, deslriUg to ascer-
tam OF what 1t was composed, pointed to his
emplleu plate anu saht lnqulrlDgly to the y q
taued attendant: "Quack, quack. quack :"
The Celestial shook MS head and grlnnng
replied: "Bow-wOw, bow WOW, bOw-wuw :"
Initiating as we'd as ne could to the horror of
the Minister. the bark of dog.
OF the Greeley supporters of 1872 Massa-
chUsetts has chosen from among them men,
bers Of Congress, State treasurer, Presl-
monwealth, and lnCumbents of many minor
positions Of Importance, and the Collector Of
the port of Boston and the United states
Marshal for the Springfield district have been
taken from their ranks. Ihsh been plain
ly not one OF the unforgivab.e sins in politics.
THE queerest thing in Boston is the recent
sale of a church without the tower, which
latter is retained by the man who became The
buver under mortgage. The reason is that
ills man thought that those who bought the
church did not have sufficient athletic taste
to prevent their earring down the tower
Hence he keeps for himself about twenty
square feet of land on which the tower il
built and deeds all the rest of the land with
The church building TO the new congregation.
The great Chicago Opera House is now said
to be as good as an accomplished fact. The
design of the building has been fixed and
over s., 000, 900 assured, with $3.50, 900 pledged
The editiCe Will be ten stories high and VIII
be surmounTed by a tower 800 feet high The
auditorium on all ordi airy occasions will
seat 900 people, but the capacity can be en-
larged to 5000 for conventions and other pub
lie gatherings. The stage will be 20 by l20
feet, dimensions which are only surpassed by
by those of La Scala, at Milan.
A COLLECTION has been made of the books
and papers of George NJ. Bartholomew, the
Hartford defaulter. Says the Hartford
Times: There are all sorts Of documents IN
the collection, which represents an infinite
variety OF financial and business projects
from Boston, Hartford ana Erie to coal and
mining enterprises-the whole lot being of
sufficient magnitude to fortifY dozen mil
llonalres against want, II the documents
represented anything in value proportional
10 their Blu and weight. They are not avail
able assets as they are, but they are interest
ing relics OF a crowded business career whose
risks and responsibilities were enough to
break down dozen ordinary men"
A CURIOUS story was told in the Stratford.
Eng, police court, when a gypsy named
Louisa Gumbrell was charged with being con-
cerned with her husband in Kidnapping and
OBTAINING since 1884 boy named Frederick
Russell. 1t 4 peared that on the August
bank hondaY IN That year the boy, then only
ten years old, went to Wanstead Flats to see
the shows, and from that time till SATURDAY.
last his father saw nothing Of him. Then the
father accidentally came upon him in Wool
wien carrying baby which the prisoner
came up and owned. The lad gave evidence
as to his being detained by the gypsies, taken
about hopping, also 10 race meetings, and
prevented from going back to his home.
WHEN in the civilized world Mr.. Henry NJ.
Stanley smokes Sin cigars a DAY. In Africa
he uses q pipe and mid tobacco, which he
finds = solace and an ana to concentration of
mind. On one Of his journeys down the Con-
go, rs he was about TO enter Il dangerous
country where he knew fight was inevitable
he told his men to make ready and then iii
his pipe and settled down Tor five minutes
quiet SMOKE before the battle. Ten minutes
later they were all fighting for their lives and
the battle Taste Tor hours. He did not begin
to smoke until he was 70 and did not master a
pipe until he was 80. Livingstone. 1t Is re-
membered, never smoked. Gordon was a
most nyeterIte smoker, and when he went
on mis- last journey 10 hhartoum 10 900 cigar
cites formed an important part OF his Dag
gage.
COUNT Won BEUST speaks very favorably,
in his memoirs, OF the Orleans family. One
day the King invited the young dip.omatist
to dinner at It. Cloud. AT such family
dinner" the Count relates, 1.-THE King was
quite bourgeois, and did his own carving:
Il task 10 winch, however, Louis Philippe OF
whom one might say 'qu'Il savdit mIruX
trauCner les difficulties que les yIaudes'! wa
fortunately did not have any serious couse-
round. a second piece chung 10 the one / toOk
next 10 me. without her noticing il. Butt
wien the Queen WIS looking the
ther way. OF SEEING Inc piece OF ham and
hiding 1t in my pocket"
A wELL-KNOwN ENGLISH confidence man
known rs "Gentleman Mark,n q ias Mark
King, 1t Is asserted, recently INDEED well !
known scientist Of Philadelphia out of $40, O0Y
in gold. King pretended that he had learned
Il secret in Mexico by which go could bu /
ok lr4ctpd from ordinary Eranitp rOck nv thu